Dear mtnagel-ga;
Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question.
What you have there is called Pampas grass (pronounced "Pom-pas"). In
the photo, the grass is dormant and it turns brown like that over the
winter months. It doesn’t look like much now but it will – very soon.
In the spring, when it gets warmer, the plant will renew and become
absolutely beautiful like this perhaps (depending on the variety you
have)
SWALLOWTAIL GARDEN SEEDS
http://www.swallowtailgardenseeds.com/perennials/pampas_grass.html
In full bloom it will grow large feathery tufts called “plumes” on the
end of each reed. This is a fine example of very large, mature,
healthy plants:
PAMPAS GRASS
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/6293/pampas.htm
PAMPAS GRASS
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/pampas_grass.htm
HOFFMAN NURSERY
http://www.hoffmannursery.com/cgi-bin/hoffmannursery/order.cgi?view+retail+CorSel+1
Here’s a good start on caring for your plants:
ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/grasses/care.html
This time of year is the best time to prune the plant back to help
insure good, healthy growth. Cut the reeds off leaving about a foot of
them sticking up (don’t wait too long). Don’t take just my word for it
though. Read up on it and you’ll see that this is the correct thing to
do. You won’t need to prune back the ground cover around the
root-ball, or base of the plant. Each year your plant will grow back
larger than the year before and they can live for many, many years if
cared for properly. The thing will get huge if you let it and some
people even grow them as a windbreak or a visual barrier between their
house and the neighbor’s house. Country clubs often have them along
the fences of their golf courses where the fence borders a highway,
for example. If you read up on it, you will also learn how to divide
and transplant your pampas grass so you will have many of them along a
fence row. These are truly beautiful, especially so when they are
mature, and you’ll be very proud to have them one day.
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Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga
INFORMATION SOURCES
SWALLOWTAIL GARDEN SEEDS
http://www.swallowtailgardenseeds.com/perennials/pampas_grass.html
PAMPAS GRASS
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/pampas_grass.htm
PAMPAS GRASS
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/6293/pampas.htm
HOFFMAN NURSERY
http://www.hoffmannursery.com/cgi-bin/hoffmannursery/order.cgi?view+retail+CorSel+1
ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/grasses/care.html
SEARCH STRATEGY
SEARCH ENGINE USED:
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SEARCH TERMS USED:
PAMPAS GRASS
CARE FOR PAMPAS GRASS |
